Contemporary theatre and performance practices; directing, dramaturgy, interdisciplinary practice (particularly with visual art), playwriting/writing for performance, site-specific performance, theatre and autism, tragedy.

Biography

Graham Eatough is one of Scotland’s leading artists working in theatre, visual art and film. He was Artistic Director of Suspect Culture theatre company from 1996 to 2009 establishing the company as one of the UK’s most innovative groups presenting new work around the world. Since 2007 Graham has worked extensively within the visual arts exploring an interdisciplinary approach to theatricality and performance in collaboration with leading artists such as Graham Fagen, Simon Starling and Stephen Sutcliffe. In theatre, Graham has worked extensively with the National Theatre of Scotland over recent years writing and directing How To Act, a contemporary Greek tragedy set in a theatre masterclass, and creating an adaptation of Naoki Higashida’s book about autism, The Reason I Jump, staged in a specially designed outdoor maze in Glasgow’s West End. In 2015 he directed Lanark: A Life in Three Acts for Edinburgh International Festival and Citizens Theatre which he created with long-time collaborator, the writer David Greig.

Graham’s work has been presented in prestigious venues and festivals throughout the UK and internationally including, most recently, Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art, Manchester International Festival, Ruhrtriennale, Sydney Harbour and La Friche gallery Marseille. He has won a number of awards including, Herald Angel Award 2015, The Contemporary Arts Society Prize 2016 with Stephen Sutcliffe, Critics Award for Theatre in Scotland 2016 and a Scotsman Fringe First 2017.

List by: Type | Date

• 2018 – National Theatre of Scotland Project Funding
• 2017 – National Theatre of Scotland Project Funding
• 2017 - Manchester International Festival Commission
• 2017 - Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art Director’s Commission
• 2016 – Contemporary Arts Society Prize
• 2016 - Creative Scotland Open Fund
• 2016 - Outset Scotland, Scotland Foundation Circle Award
• 2015 – Edinburgh International Festival Project Commission
• 2015 - Scottish Government Expo Fund
• 2015 - Creative Scotland Open Project Fund
• 2014 – Sydney Harbour Foreshore Co-commission
• 2014 - Ruhrtriennale Co-commission
• 2014 - Glasgow Life Co-commission
• 2013 – Sextant et Plus/Panorama Gallery Marseille Commission
• 2012 – Glasgow International Festival of Art Director’s Commission
• 2012 - Creative Scotland Vital Spark Award
• 2011 – AHRC PhD Studentship
• 2010 - Creative Scotland Artist Bursary

I welcome PhD applications from students in the area of contemporary performance, interdisciplinary performance and dramaturgy, and particularly from those wishing to carry out their research through practice.

• Cox, Michelle Alicia
  Excavating the Silences: Using Theatre to Give Voice to Archaeological Findings and Excluded Narratives from the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade in Barbados
• Ettinger, Emma
  Staging Neurodiverse Sibling Relationships

• Reading the Stage (Level 1)
• Modernism to Postmodernism (Level 2)
• Advanced Directing (Senior Honours)
• Dissertations (Honours)
• Work Placement (Senior Honours)
• Arts Criticism (Honours/MLitt)
• Shaping Futures (Honours/MLitt)
• Playwriting 1 (MLitt)
• Work Placement (MLitt)
• Research Methods (PGT and PGR)
• Independent Practice (MLitt)
• Practice as Research Projects (MLitt)
• Independent Research Projects (MLitt)

Administration

Convenor of Theatre and Performance Practices (MLitt)

External Responsibilities

Member of Limitless steering group - initiative developing drama provision for people with autism in Scotland with National Theatre of Scotland, National Autistic Society and Royal Conservatoire of Scotland